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Would You Use This New Proposed Punctuation Mark?

The woman behind the idea calls it an “ElRey Mark” and it’s “somewhere between the deadpan period and the excitable exclamation point.”

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Would You Use This New Proposed Punctuatio...
Ryan Broderick

2. Photographer Ellen Susan’s reasoning behind the proposed new punctuation mark:


“Ellen argues, we need a new punctuation mark that resides in the emotional range between the just-the-facts period and the whoop-to-do excitability of the exclamation point. While the new mark would clearly signal positivity, it would save us from communicating with the unhinged emotionality of a note slipped between junior-high students.”

3. It would ideally be used at the end of emails, for when you’re excited, but not ~too~ excited.

4. What do you think? Is this something we need to add into our punctuation repertoire, like the snark, the punctuation mark for sarcasm.

Source: expresident

5. Or interrobang?

Source: expresident

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